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by jmsduran 13y ago
I have never heard of bacteriophages before. Doing some light research, I found their protein/body structures to look almost machine-like. Very fascinating stuff. From Wikipedia's Bacteriophage page: "Medical trials were carr
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by jmsduran 13y ago
I believe that whether one behaves as an introvert or extrovert depends entirely on context. I've seen so-called 'social butterflies' hide in a corner and pretend to be occupied with their phone when put in an uncomfortable s
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by jmsduran 13y ago
As a developer who also programs as a hobby, I dislike having to manually download, install, and configure each framework/platform I want to experiment with. With cloud IDEs like Cloud9, everything is already configured for me and just
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by jmsduran 13y ago
Former IBM'er here. I worked in Power Software Development within STG, and was laid off alongside 3,300 other US employees this past June. After first quarter results became public, employee morale within STG pretty much sank. Contract
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by jmsduran 13y ago
I wonder if livestock producers still feed Arsenic to livestock meant for organic products? It would be a shame if they do this by exploiting the technicality that Arsenic is entered through the feed in "organic form".
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by jmsduran 13y ago
This is nice news! I'm very interested in seeing how their HTML5 client turns out. On a side note, I used to play Runescape years ago back in High School/College. Looks like so much has changed since then, maybe this summer I'll look to re-
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by jmsduran 13y ago
A very informative paper on Docker, will definitely help me out when I start playing around with it. Well done!
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by jmsduran 13y ago
The negative stigma that is placed on long-term unemployment is an issue that needs to be addressed; measuring how long someone has been unemployed is not really indicative of anything. The rationalization that "If no one has hired them in
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by jmsduran 14y ago
It is more likely that an elite group in Pyongyang has internet and computer access, with a subset of that group given more privileges to engineer & deploy malware/etc. Given that though, I find it rather hard to believe the North Korea
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by jmsduran 14y ago
I hope the fiber roll-out will also include the 78758/78759 Austin areas, not just because I live in the area, but also cause Google's Austin office is located there too :).
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by jmsduran 14y ago
I've been living in Austin for roughly 2 years now. Great city to live, and is one of the friendlier cities in Texas. I'm looking forward to ditching Time Warner Cable Internet once Google Fiber goes live in Austin :).
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by jmsduran 14y ago
Hey hope I'm not late, my github ID is: jmsduran
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by jmsduran 14y ago
I myself have made the personal decision to not use smartphones. I dislike twiddling with phones in general, and would prefer to use my simple flip phone for nothing more than calls or the occasional text message.
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by jmsduran 14y ago
I'm very curious too, I wonder why this "waterhole" has not been publicly revealed yet? It would make it easier for others to identify whether they were exposed, and take the necessary actions to secure their workstations.
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by jmsduran 14y ago
The map size as seen in the beta is about the same size as what will be seen in the retail version. The argument for this is that the new SimCity runs a much deeper simulation compared to previous titles, and that bigger maps would drastica
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by jmsduran 14y ago
> "Google is going to be able to sell personalized advertisements in TV shows. Forget targeting networks or shows, Google can hit exactly me, complete with all my search history." I'm all for disrupting the oligopoly that cable companie
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by jmsduran 14y ago
The game's online-only DRM is definitely a downside. I hope the new SimCity doesn't go the route of Ubisoft's original Assassin's Creed, where players who bought the game legitimately were denied playtime cause authentication servers were d
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by jmsduran 14y ago
Despite being a weekend hack, I'm finding it to be a very useful and practical tool. Nice work!
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by jmsduran 14y ago
> "True, but then if you buy your first $50 worth of media every month and then pirate the rest. Those unlucky enough to be in the second group get kinda screwed." His original argument was that those in the second group receive increas
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by jmsduran 14y ago
I wouldn't go as far as saying visiting North Korea is "profoundly immoral". Would I consider North Korea dangerous to visit though? Yes. The country is still technically at war with South Korea, meaning at any given moment the two nations
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by jmsduran 14y ago
Gmail is down for me too.
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by jmsduran 14y ago
This is an interesting idea. However, for a noise box to be effective requires that a significant number of people are also using a noise box, which assures plausible deniability the same way TOR and shared-IP VPNs do. If you're the only on
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by jmsduran 14y ago
Actually, in building my own system, choosing the MB was my favorite part of the building process; always choosing high-quality and board component reliability/longevity over anything else. I still have a few questions though. What will thi
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by jmsduran 14y ago
> "...the way to getting people to stop pirating content is to provide an alternative method of distribution... Steam, iTunes, Netflix..." I agree with your point to an extent. The thing is that they're not exactly viable alternatives y
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by jmsduran 14y ago
A while back I was at a friend's house when we decided to watch a movie. My friend mentioned that he could stream The Avengers from his Netflix account, so taking his word on it I was like "Ok awesome"! It turns out he was wrong. A Netflix
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by jmsduran 14y ago
I must admit, I am not a fan of the default blogspot theme. I miss their old blog theme that worked fast and well with or without JavaScript enabled.
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by jmsduran 14y ago
While I hope everyone is safe from the damages Sandy brought, I have to agree that deadlines are deadlines. My interview with Google 2 years ago, despite it taking place during a winter freeze when power and Internet was out, was not resche
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by jmsduran 14y ago
While your cynicism is understandable, people need to be educated in order to make informed decisions, otherwise voting becomes pointless; that is a basic tenet of Democracy.
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by jmsduran 14y ago
Me too.
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by jmsduran 14y ago
As a software developer who lives in Austin, I find it disconcerting whenever I hear about developer layoffs, especially in our city. I hope this is just an isolated incident of bad company strategy than an overall industry trend.

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